Congratulations! Your brilliant cure for a disease has earned you $1 million. What are you going to do with all that money? Fly to Hawaii? Take 500 of your closest friends to the movies?

Oops! You've been caught in the middle of a daydream. Now focus: here's what's on the minds of 2,400 kids in the U.S., Europe, China and Japan.

1. Helping others 80% of kids surveyed

2. Traveling to different places around the world 75%

3. Being smarter 74%

4. Tie: Being older/being rich 62%

5. Being popular 61%

Source: ABC Global Kids Study 1996, created by Just Kid Inc.

Daily News from TIME for Kids

April 18, 1997 World Report